Breeding operations and stallion stations — find a farm to stand your mare or shop the next generation.
Hof Lechtenbrink is a family-run farm at Melle that breeds and rears dressage horses for sport and leisure. Young horses grow up with generous paddocks, plenty of room to move and feeding matched to the individual animal. The aim is quality dressage horses that are properly educated and cared for before they go on to their new owners. Horses are shown to prospective buyers by appointment.
Sonnenhof Kollmeyer is a family-run Icelandic horse stud set on a 280-year-old farm between the Teutoburg Forest and the Wiehengebirge near Melle. The yard breeds and sells Icelandic horses and offers livery, riding instruction, backing and further training. A dedicated wellness wing provides an aqua treadmill, salt-air inhalation, a vibration treadmill, solarium and BEMER therapy for horses in work or rehabilitation. Guest accommodation and a small shop round out the visit for owners and riders.
Haflingerhof Päse is a Haflinger stud in Päse near Meinersen, where the family has bred the breed since 1968 and which Jürgen Kolodinski now runs in the second generation. The farm has extended its programme to riding ponies aimed at children, young riders and families. It stands its own stallions — the Haflingers Stilecht and St. Tropez and the riding pony Da Silva Domingo — and presents a foal crop every year. Young horses and ponies are offered for sale and the yard hosts training clinics.
Reiterhof Köhler is a family-run equestrian farm at Mechtersen near Lüneburg. It offers horse boarding with stabling, pastures and access to an indoor school and outdoor arena, which can also be booked by outside riders. The farm breeds and raises dressage and eventing horses, rearing its own young stock on the property. Cross-country schooling facilities and extensive local hacking terrain are available on the doorstep. The yard is run personally by Lars-Johann Köhler.
Suzan Beuk is an Icelandic horse trainer and instructor based at Marxen, south of Hamburg. An IPZV trainer since 1989 and instructor since 1994, she gives individual lessons and small group sessions of no more than five riders, and takes horses in for schooling. Her approach puts a harmonious partnership between horse and rider ahead of quick competition results. She also breeds and sells Icelandic horses, runs IPZV certification courses, seminars and clinics, coaches young riders and teaches on the road at other yards.
Tierarztpraxis und Gestüt Dr. Kristin Mielke combines a veterinary practice with a stud farm at Kleinenborstel near Martfeld in Lower Saxony. Dr. Kristin Mielke treats horses and other animals from the same site on which the stud breeds and raises its own horses. The website carries opening times, directions, an events calendar and a photo gallery of the yard, while detailed clinical information is reserved for registered clients in line with German professional advertising rules.
Gestüt Hagewede is a sport-horse breeding operation run by the Heidmeyer family at Hagewede near Marl in Lower Saxony, under the motto "horse breeding out of passion". The stud keeps its own band of broodmares and raises the resulting foals and young horses on the farm. Homebred horses are offered for sale directly from the yard. Foaling and rearing places are also available to outside breeders, with a grazing season from May to October and daily checks. The pastures lie directly at the farm.
Nýpahof is an Icelandic-horse stud in Lüdersburg east of Lüneburg, run by Laura and Steve Köster. The yard breeds Icelandic horses, stands its own stallions and regularly has trained sale horses on offer. Schooling (Beritt) and riding lessons are available for horses and riders at every level, and boarding places are offered on the farm. The Kösters also supply riding equipment made for Icelandic horses.
Bernd Lübbers is a livestock business at Bunnen near Löningen that markets cattle, pigs and horses and runs its own sport-horse breeding programme. The breeding line is built on dressage-bred broodmares and has produced foals by stallions including Totilas, Fürst Toto, Vivino and Bon Vivaldi. Youngstock from the operation is presented with full pedigree papers and passports. Alongside the horses the firm handles calves, fattening cattle, bulls, piglets and fattening pigs for import and export.
Kuntershof is a sport-horse breeding farm in Löningen in the Oldenburger Münsterland, owned by the Sanktjohanser family since 1996. The farm buildings date from 1785 and were fully renovated in 1997. Breeding is built on selected mare lines, which the farm supplements by buying in exceptional foals to broaden its base of breeding and sport horses. Broodmares and the current crop of horses are presented on the farm's own pages. Young horses from the breeding programme are regularly offered for sale.
Gestüt Sprehe is a sport-horse stud and EU-approved semen collection centre in Löningen-Benstrup, Lower Saxony, with more than 25 years of breeding history. The stud stands a large roster of dressage and show jumping stallions, several of them ranked among the leading sires on the WBFSH world rankings. Breeders can order fresh or frozen semen directly, request the stallion catalogue and take advice on matings. Sprehe also runs its own online foal auction and publishes regular offers for breeders.
Hemmens Dressurpferde is a dressage breeding operation on a farm in Löningen in the Oldenburger Münsterland. The stud keeps a small band of quality broodmares from established dressage bloodlines and raises their foals on the farm. Foals and young horses are offered for sale each year, and demand is high enough that a crop can be fully sold before it is born. Made sale horses are presented alongside the youngstock. Interested buyers are welcome to visit and view the mares and foals on the farm.
The Dressurpferde Leistungszentrum Lodbergen is a dressage breeding centre and stallion station in the Hase valley of the Oldenburger Münsterland, in operation for over 40 years. It stands a roster of premium dressage stallions and supplies semen to breeders, publishing an annual stallion prospectus alongside an online catalogue. The centre also breeds, raises and sells young horses, broodmares and competition prospects. Breeders using its stallions are advised on pedigrees and matings.
Brallentin Quarterhorse is a Quarter Horse breeding operation. It keeps a band of broodmares and breeds them to stallions in a set breeding season. Foals are born on the farm, and young horses are offered for sale. The website also presents the horses, their offspring and past foaling seasons.
Engelbert Sporthorses GmbH is a dressage yard at Lingen (Ems) run by Markus Engelbert. The business breeds, trains and markets dressage horses, and matches riders from amateur through to professional level with a suitable partner. Training covers both horse and rider, so a horse can be prepared alongside the person who will ride it. The horses stand at the Reitanlage Herzford in Lingen-Schepsdorf, where viewings are arranged by appointment.
Stall Osterkamp is a family yard in Liener near Lindern, Lower Saxony, run by Helmut and Bernd Osterkamp, the latter a qualified FN Bereiter. The stable accompanies a horse through its whole early life, from the foal and the birth of the next generation to the finished competition horse. Breeding and rearing sit alongside the schooling of young horses and show jumpers. The yard also takes livery horses and works with a regular veterinary team on site.
Pferdezucht Beuke is a private dressage-horse breeding operation run by Dr. Christina Beuke at Lilienthal near Bremen. The stud is built around the Longola mare line, which has produced internationally successful sport horses and premium broodmares. A small band of mares is bred each year to leading dressage stallions and the resulting foals are offered for sale. Considerable emphasis is placed on early handling and education so that every foal gets a calm, correct start in life.
Veltenhof Stadtlander is a livery yard and breeding operation on eleven hectares at Lilienthal near Bremen, in business for around 25 years. Three barns hold about 80 boxes — paddock, window and interior — with daily mucking out, organic hay and weekday turnout. Facilities include a 45x22 m indoor school with LED lighting and a lungeing hall with two circles. Qualified riding instruction and schooling are available on site, and the yard breeds Hanoverian horses.
Blutgeprägte Pferde is a Hanoverian sport-horse breeding programme run by Bernhard von Boehn in the Hannover region. The breeding aim is to cross classical Hanoverian foundation lines with elite thoroughbred blood to produce sound, intelligent horses with genuine athletic ability, particularly for jumping. Breeding stock and broodmares are offered for sale and stallion partnerships are arranged, with matings supported by analysis of WBFSH performance data rather than by fashion. The programme works with the veterinary clinic at TiHo Hannover and with the Landgestüt Celle.
Kramer Dressage is a breeding and sales operation for German Riding Ponies and dressage horses based at Lathen in Lower Saxony. Run by Reinhard Kramer, the yard keeps a small band of quality broodmares and raises their offspring for the dressage market. Young stock and produced horses are offered for sale to competition and leisure homes. Breeding decisions are made with rideability and dressage aptitude in mind.
Lerettes Ranch is the small hobby breeding operation of Veronika Käter in Lastrup, Lower Saxony. The yard has bred Oldenburg horses for more than forty years from a compact broodmare band. Despite the modest scale, horses bred here have gone on to compete successfully at international level. Pedigrees of the mare line and its offspring are documented on its own site, and homebred horses are offered for sale.
Zuchthof Klatte is a sport-horse breeding farm at Klein Roscharden near Lastrup in the Oldenburger Münsterland, run by the Klatte family on land the family has farmed for more than 500 years. It breeds and raises foals with an emphasis on species-appropriate rearing, and stands a roster of licensed stallions. Semen is shipped to breeders across Europe and as far as the USA and Australia. Young and trained horses are sold from the yard, which also hosts stallion presentations and breeding events.
Böckmann Pferde is a long-established sport-horse operation at Lastrup in Lower Saxony with more than fifty years of breeding behind it. The stud stands a collection of licensed stallions and offers frozen semen alongside its own breeding programme. Riding horses, breeding stock and foals are marketed from the yard, and sport and training are led by international rider Gilbert Böckmann. Livery places with individual care are available for owners who want their horses kept and worked on site.
Clüverhof is a family farm in Langwedel-Völkersen, in the middle of Lower Saxony, which has been in the Clüver family since 1906. Alongside its suckler-cow herd the farm runs livery stabling (Pensionspferdehaltung) and breeds horses. The whole holding is farmed to organic standards and has carried the EU organic seal since 2016, with the animals fed exclusively on home-grown forage such as pasture grass, grass silage and hay. A farm shop sells the farm's own beef and other regional produce, which can also be ordered online.
